I received a newsletter from
www.ewg.org yesterday about why bottled water isn't good for us anymore and thought I would do an MSG search. I came up with three articles. The one I'm citing here is called
From Processed Foods to Natural Wholesomeness which can be found at
http://www.ewg.org/node/22655"Artificial and natural flavors" is a catch-all phrase for a concoction of hundreds of chemicals used to make you think you're tasting a delicious apple or a juicy grape. Rather than take you through a boring recitation of all the junk chemicals and their nasty side affects that are in our food supply, we'll amuse you with a short running list much in the same way the food industry crams it all together in fine print on their packaging…Brominated Vegetable Oil (BVO), Butylated Hydoroxyanisole (BHA), Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT), Cochineal Extract, Sodium Casseinate, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Dextrose, Heptyl Paraben, Hyrdrogenated Starch, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil and Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Lactitol, Maltitol, Mannitol, the infamous Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), Polysorbate 60, Potassium Bromate, the bad boys of the preservative class -- Sodium Nitrate and Nitrite, Sulfites... ah, well, we're sure you have the idea by now. An excellent and more extensive read on the topic is The Hundred Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald.
Just more information for the MSG sufferer.
When you are finished reading the article, do your own search for MSG at
www.ewg.com and read the other two articles. I'll tell you,
I am still shocked over what I find about MSG and other problems within our food system.
Sass